Wikipedia's Assault on Patent Encumbered Codecs

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Submission + - Wikipedia's Assault on Patent Encumbered Codecs (videoonwikipedia.org) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @12:46PM

An anonymous reader writes: The Open Video Alliance is launching a campaign today called Let's Get Video on Wikipedia asking people to create and post videos to Wikipedia articles (good, encyclopedia style videos only!). Because all video must be in patent-free codecs (theora for now), this will make Wikipedia by far the most likely site for an average internet user to have a truly free and open video experience. The campaign seeks to "strike a blow for freedom" against a wave of h.264 adoption in otherwise open html5 video implementations.

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